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Crime updates for June

See the latest updates on crime incidents affecting Wickhambrook and the surrounding areas...

Wanted/For Sale

Take a look at all the items we have for sale and see if you can find yourself a bargain. You can also post requests for items you are looking for. It's free and we have sold lots of items over the years from cars to sofas!

For Sale 2 bikes excellent condition and 2 pairs of curtains like new - bargains!

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Wickhambrook Google Group - great for keeping up to date with news, info, items for sale etc from other members.

Apply to be added by sending an email to cb88online@googlegroups.com. Once confirmed as added (check junk mail folder) you will be able to send your news etc by sending emails to cb88online@googlegroups.com where your news etc will be distributed to everyone registered instantly. To reply to posts you are interested in just click on your usual email reply as if you are sending a regular email and it will reach the sender.

Spread the word as this will only work with plenty of CB88 members so tell your friends, relatives and organisations who live within the CB8 area.

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Wickhambrook Local History Society Reports

FEBRUARY 2004

We were very pleased to welcome Lindsay Lee to our February meeting and her talk with slides about Sutton Hoo was greatly enjoyed by all who attended. This was a huge subject to tackle in a couple of hours, but Lindsay kept it in perspective by talking about the people involved in the site from the ‘Dark Ages’ (now known by the more PC title of ‘The Migration period’) to the present day.

‘King’Raedwald and his wife and the ship burial with its mounds were well known to most of the audience, but there have been discoveries on the site of even earlier inhabitants of the Bronze Age and the Neolithic period, marking Sutton Hoo as a very special place indeed.

We heard about Mrs Pretty who lived there in the 1930s and Basil Brown, the self- taught archaelogist who helped to excavate the mounds and of the treasure they unearthed.

Similar finds near Southend have been discovered recently, and Lindsay answered many questions about this and other aspects of her work. She was thanked by the Chairman, Percy Nunn.

Events and News

The Wickhambrook Parish Records are currently being digitised and updated. If you have any information you may be able to add or help fill in some of the gaps, please contact Paul Saunders.

View the Parish Records document here

Photos and Press Cuttings

We have had some fascinating photos and press cuttings sent to us which you can see by having a look at the pdf group images in the gallery

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Dorothy Anderson is awarded a Diamond Champion - read more here

Horticultural Society Bring and Buy

Lidgate Open Gardens
Sunday 23 June 2013

19 Gardens open. Unveiling of the official plaque to John de Lydgate, paella-fest at the Lidgate Star, craft stalls, table top sales, tea/coffee, bacon rolls and cakes plus a giant raffle. All proceeds to go to Lidgate Village Hall Restoration. Garden entry £5 for adults, children under 8 free and 8 - 16 year olds £2.50. 10am - 5pm - a great day out. See poster

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Our Committee

For information about the Society or events please contact either the Secretary or Events Secretary.

The main committee is as follows:

Chairman	Dorothy Anderson 01440 820376
Secretary & Events Secretary	Gillian Cooper 01440 820052
Treasurer	Pam Miller 01440 820696

Members Information

Membership costs £8 per year payable in April plus 50p for each meeting.

Guests are always very welcome - £2 per occasion.

Meetings held at 7.30pm in the W.I. Hall.

Library - The library is now all set up at the Primary School. Please let us know your views on this. (Little Bradley trip - we have bought Wendy Barnes' book for the library).

Discover the Paintings you Own - The Hidden Heritage of Suffolk Revealed by the Public Catalogue Foundation

and now for some interesting Historical Facts from the 1500's ...

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Useful links and information

Suffolk Observatory

Suffolk Family History Society

Suffolk Local History Council

Suffolk Surnames - Information, help and advice for anyone researching their Suffolk Roots

I have had a letter from the East Anglian Film Archive with details of DVDs which may be of interest to you. You can look online at archivefilmshop.co.uk and type HISTSOC into the discount box. Their Phone no. is 01603 251744. Please tell them which Hist Soc you belong to when you call (Dorothy)

Many will know that The National Archives gives regular talks on various aspects of family history at the PRO in Kew. Less well known is that they're now available to replay online. Very easy to listen to, providing you've got broadband.

The Family and Community Historical Research Society

The Archive CD Books Project

Doctors who practised in Wickhambrook up until 1900 - Suffolk Medical Biographies website - type in 'Wickhambrook' in the 'place of practice' box and then 'search'.